Format Text Dialog Box

Use the Format Text dialog box to set the attributes for a drawing or sketch text.

Access

• Modeling environments:

  Ribbon: Sketch tab Create panel Text or Leader Text

• Drawing environment:

  Ribbon: Annotate tab Text panelText or Leader Text

  Right-click a dimension or hole note, and click Text.

Style

Specifies the text style to apply to the text. Click the arrow and select from the list of available text styles.

Text and Font Attributes

Specifies the paragraph attributes for selected text.

Bullets and Numbering

Creates a bulleted or numbered list.

Justification

Positions the text within the text box.

Baseline Justification

Available when Single Line Text is selected and when creating sketch text.

Single Line Text

Removes all line breaks from multiline text. Available only for sketch text.

Line Space

Sets the distance between text lines.

Spacing Value specifies the value for line spacing, when you set line spacing to Exactly or Multiple.

Fit text

Sizes the text to fit the designated space, such as a text box. Available only for sketch text.

Stretch(%)

Specifies the text width. Enter 100 to display the text as designed, enter 50 to decrease the width of the text by 50%.

Font

Specifies the text font. Click the arrow and select from the list of available fonts.

Font Size

Sets the height of the text in sheet units (inches or millimeters). Enter the size or click the arrow and select a size from the list.

Tip: Edit the standard settings to customize the list of pre-defined font sizes. Open the Style and Standard Editor and click the current standard. Then add or remove font sizes in the Preset Values list on the General tab.

Color

Specifies the text color. Click the Color command, and then select a color from the Color dialog box. In the Color dialog box, select the By Layer check box to set the color specified by the text layer. Clear the check box to select a color. The color command shows the selected color or layer color.

Text Style

Sets the style. Click Bold, Italic, Underline, or Strikethrough to apply the style to the text.

Stack

Stacks strings to create diagonal or horizontal stacked fractions, and superscript or subscript strings. Available if the selected string is in a correct stacking format.

Examples of correct stacking format:

• 1#2 stacks as a diagonal fraction.
• 1/2 stacks as a horizontal fraction.
• 1^2 stacks as a tolerance (1 over 2).

Tip: To edit properties of stacked text, select a stacked text in the edit field, right-click, and select Properties.

Text Case

Converts selected string to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or Title Case.

Text box

Allows constraining and dimensioning to text. Available only for sketch text.

Rotation Angle, Rotate

Rotates the text around the insertion point. For example, if text is top and left-justified, the text rotates around the top left corner.

For a drawing note, click the arrow to select the rotation orientation or enter the angle of rotation in the edit box. For sketch text, select a Rotate option from the list, or create a new UCS to orient the text.

Model, Drawing, and Custom Properties

When retrieving model properties, the model source depends on the sketch type:

• Sheet or Draft View sketch

  Top-level model of the first view on the sheet. If the first base view on the sheet is deleted, the next base view on the sheet becomes the data source for properties.

• View sketch

  Top-level model of the view.

Note: When the drawing update status is deferred or the referenced model document is unresolved, model-based text property values do not update.

Type

Specifies property types from the drawing, the source model, and the custom property source file (for external and model custom properties) specified on the Drawings tab of the Document Settings dialog box. Available when creating or editing sketch text (in Sheet, View, or Draft View sketches), symbol text, title block and border text.

Note:

• Each external property set defined in either the drawing or the model file has an entry with that property set name in the list.
• If the source model contains at least one custom property, the Custom Properties - Model property type is available.
• In sheet metal drawings, select the Sheet Metal Properties type to add the Flat Pattern Extents Area, Width, or Length in text. (Not available in Inventor LT)
• Select the Physical Properties - Model property type to add the model Mass, Density, Volume, and Area in the text. If the displayed value of a physical property is N/A, physical properties of the model are out of date. To update the model, open the model file and choose Manage tab Update panel Update Mass .
• All values of physical properties are displayed with the unit string.

Property

Specifies a property associated with the selected Type. Available when creating or editing all drawing text, including text properties in notes, leader text, sketch text, symbol text, title block, and border text.

Precision

Specifies the precision for numerical properties displayed in the text. Select the desired precision from the list.

Add Text Parameter

Inserts the parameter selected in Type and Property to the text. Available when creating or editing drawing text, including sketch text, symbol text, note text, leader text, title block, and border text. Not available for Prompted Entry type.

Parameters

Selects a named parameter and inserts its value into the text at the insertion point. Parameter options are available only when adding or editing text in general drawing notes and dimension text.

Note: Part text does not use parameter settings.

Component

Specifies the model file that contains the parameter. If the drawing contains views of more than one model, click the arrow, and select the file from the list. If the drawing contains derived parts, the donor parts are also included in this list.

Source

Selects the type of parameter to show in the Parameter list. Click the arrow and select from the list.

• Model Parameters lists the named parameters automatically added to the model when you add dimensions or features.
• User Parameters lists the user parameters added to the model.

Parameter

Specifies the parameter to insert into the text. Click the arrow and select from the list. The parameters in the list change, depending on the Source you selected.

Precision

Specifies the precision for numerical parameters displayed in the text. Select the desired precision from the list.

Add Parameter

Adds the selected parameter from the selected component to the text.

Symbol

Inserts a symbol into the text at the insertion point. Click the arrow and select the symbol from the palette. The top three symbols are diameter, degree and plus-minus, and they use the active font. All other symbols use the AIGDT font. In drawings, the available symbols are determined by the active Feature Control Frame style.

At the bottom of the symbol list, the Windows Character Map command accesses characters not available as standard keyboard characters. In the Character Map, click a character, and then click Select and then click Copy. In the Format Text pane, right-click and select Paste.

Zoom

To zoom the edited text, place the cursor in the editing field, hold the CTRL key on your keyboard, and scroll the mouse wheel.